Saturday, January 15, 2011

Over New Year's weekend, I visited an awesome warehouse in downtown Rockford that is chock-full of 100 year old+ architectural salvage items. We're talking doors, windows, shutters, fireplace mantles, gorgeous hardware, door knobs, drawer pulls, lighting fixtures, ceiling tiles...I could go on. Here is a sample of what I bought. The bathtub feet are right in the middle of the picture:

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Outdoor Candle Holder

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Old Bath Fixtures

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Solid Brass Backplate

Many of these item are currently under restoration. The first project was to transform a pair of beautiful and elegant feet from a cast iron claw foot bathtub into beautifully functional bookends.

First, I cleaned the bathtub feet because they were very dusty. Then the wonderful Mr. Nitty Gritty used a wire wheel to make them nice and smooth. They turned out beautifully.

I primed them then painted them white. Easy peasie. Voila!

Sorry for the poor picture quality. Olivia has dropped my camera so many times, I am sure it is on its last leg. A new camera is in the future (hopefully).

Nitty Gritty Girl

Let's get dirty. Let use tools. Let's create, restyle, design, fall down, fail and try again. Let's make something out of nothing. Let's burn the candle at both ends. Let's switch it up and swap it out. LET'S DO IT!